index

•Measures of Cognitive Performativity

•Frameworks of Intelligibility

Max Weber

Deleuze & Guattari

Vincent/McMahon

Piaget/Vygotsky

Michael Mann

This site

Three regimes (charismatic, patrimonial, rational-bureaucratic)

Three regimes (primitive, despotic, capitalist)

Left vs. Right: (topologies of the two-party system)

Cognitive modalities (topologies of the two-party system)

Four networks of power

Five genetic ontologies (topologies of the two-party system)

We are changing, of course, but that does not necessarily mean we are progressing. Combined with all the forces that today exhort us to look into our own private lives, the “civilization of change” has stimulated a massive interest in psychic disorders. It can be heard from all quarters, and it takes form in the many marketplaces that offer inner balance and tranquility. Today, many of our socials tensions have been expressed in terms of implosion and depressive collapse or, in a similar way, its flip side: explosions of violence, rage, the search for new sensations. pp. 185-6

As addictive explosion reflects depressive implosion, so the drug-taker’s search for sensation reflects the depressed person’s lack of feeling. Depression, that crossroads of pathology, serves as a canvas upon which to sketch out the changes in modern subjectivity, the displacement of the hard task of being healthy. In a context in which choice is the norm and inner insecurity the price, these pathologies make up the dark side of contemporary private life. Such is the equation of the sovereign individual: psychic freedom and individual initiative = identity insecurities and the incapacity to act. p. 232

And yet, in novel after novel, the protagonist of the Bildungroman, whose social origin is often in what German historians call Bildungsburgertum, or bourgeoisie of culture, does not direct his steps toward the Besitzburgertum, or bourgeoisie of property, but rather--think of the frequent episode of the hero's 'farewell to his bourgeois friend'--toward an aristocratic universe with which it feels a far deeper kinship." p. viii-ix) ... " . . . outside of work, what is the bourgeois? what does he do? how does he live? (p. viii-ix)

•IQ tests
•PISA
•MEAP

•episodic (primate)
•mimetic (homo erectus, h. sapients)
•oral-mythic (h. sapiens sapiens)
•theoretic (required by modern capitalism*)
•post-theoretic (Foucault, Sellars, Deleuze)

Developmental: Piaget et. al.

•pre-operational
•concrete operrational
•formal operational
•post-formal thought (Commons)

•projection
•displacement
•reaction formation
•denial
•identification

Tomasello. The Social Origins of Language (Oxford, 2014)

• zone of proximal development
• joint intentionality
• intersubjectivity

Four Stages of Piaget's Theory of Development

Cognitive-linguistic Cardinality (orders of magnitude/index of cognitive complexity)

the Quantum Heterogeneity of Dasein in the context of Merlin Donald, A Mind so Rare, Table 7.1, p. 260 (Apologies to George Cantor)
א_i index of cognitive complexity (Ceci)

i=4 Internet and the Extended Mind

i=3 Foucault (Kant Hegel Nietzsche)

i=2 Formal operational

i=1 Concrete operational

i=0 Oral-mythic/pre-operational

i=-1 Mimetic/gestural (homo erectus)

i=-2 Primate semiosis

The Development of Children (Sixth Edition) by Cynthia Lightfoot, Michael Cole, and Sheila R. Cole
Development Through the Lifespan, Laura E. Berk

Jerome Kagan, The Human Spark: The Science of Human Development 2013

Piaget, Genetic Epistemology

Stephen J. Ceci, On Intelligence: A Bioecological Treatise on Intellectual Development (Harvard, 1996)

The term intelligence is often used synonymously with "IQ", "g", or "general intelligence", especially in some of the psychometric literature. . . however, the ability to engage in cognitively complex behaviors will be shown to be independent of IQ, g, or general intelligence . . . cognitive complexity will be seen to be the more general of the two notions and the one most theoretically important to keep in mind when referring to intelligent behavior.22

The Quantum Heterogeneity of Dasein: Five Genetic Ontologies* (QHD-5)

Five "principles of production of practices" (Bourdieu, In Other Words, 108)

*Miguel de Beistegui, Truth and genesis: philosophy as differential ontology (Indiana University Press, 2004)

Jean Piaget, Genetic Epistemology

I. primate

II. paleolithic

III. ressentiment & the mechanisms of defense

IV. bildung & the will to power

V. nihilism

Language and Literacy

III. Ressentiment & the Mechanisms of Defense
(despotic regime, white supremacy, fascism)

Nietzsche, Freud, Klein.

Michael André Bernstein, Bitter Carnival : ressentiment and the abject hero (Princeton University Press, 1992)

R. I. Moore, The Formation of a Persecuting Society: Power and Deviance in Western Europe, 950-1250 (Blackwell, 1987)
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R. I. Moore, The War on Heresy (Harvard, 2012)

Frank John Ninivaggi, Envy Theory: Perspectives on the Psychology of Envy (Rowman & Littlefield, 2010)

Simon Clarke, Social Theory, Psychoanalysis and Racism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003)

Eli Rozik, The roots of theatre: rethinking ritual and other theories of origin (University of Iowa Press, 2002)

Fyodor Dostoevski, Notes from Underground
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Lillian Smith, Killers of the Dream

Sinclair Lewis, Elmer Gantry
Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
Tara Westover, Educated

"fascism" in Europe

Robert O. Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism (Knopf, 2004)

Aristotle Kallis, Genocide and Fascism: the Eliminationist Drive in Fascist Europe (Routledge, 2009)

Arno J. Mayer, Dynamics of Counterrevolution in Europe, 1870—1956 (Harper Torchbooks, 1971)

Arno J. Mayer, The Persistence Of The Old Regime: Europe To The Great War (Pantheon Books, 1981)

R. J. B. Bosworth, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Fascism (Oxford University Press, 2009)
Helmut Walser Smith, The Oxford Handbook of Modern German History (Oxford, 2011)

Ian Kershaw, Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris (W.W. Norton & Co., 1998)

Richard Evans, The Third Reich in History and Memory (Oxford, 2016)

Franklin Hugh Adler, Italian Industrialists from Liberalism to Fascism: The political development of the industrial bourgeoisie, 1906-1934 (Cambridge, 1995)

Mary Vincent, "The Spanish Church and the Popular Front: the experience of Salamanca province," in Martin S. Alexander and Helen Graham, eds., The French and Spanish Popular Fronts (Cambridge University Press, 1989)

Helmut Walser Smith, The Continuities of German History: Nation, Religion, and Race across the Long Nineteenth Century (Cambridge, 2008)

Helmut Walser Smith, The Butcher's Tale: Murder and Anti-Semitism in a German Town (Norton, 2003)

Darrin M. McMahon, Enemies of the Enlightenment: the French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity (Oxford University Press, 2001)

Macgregor Knox, To the Threshold of Power: 1922/33: Origins and Dynamics of the Fascist and National Socalist Dictatorshhips, Volume 1 (Cambridge, 2007)

"fascism" in the United States

Susan Juster, Sacred Violence in Early America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016)

Jackson Lears, Rebirth of a Nation: the Making of Modern America, 1877-1920 (2009)

Jackson Lears, No Place of Grace: Anti-Modernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880-1920 (Chicago, 1983)

Gail Bederman, Manliness and Civilization: a Cultural History of Gender and Racein the United States, 1880-1917 (U. of Chicago, 1995)

John Pettegrew, Brutes in Suits: Male Sensibility in America, 1890-1920 (Johns Hopkins, 2007)

Anatol Levien, America Right or Wrong: An Anatomy of American Nationalism (Oxford University Press, 2005)

Joseph E. Lowndes, From the New Deal to the New Right : race and the southern origins of modern conservatism (2008),

Bruce Clayton, "No Ordinary History: W. J. Cash's The Mind of the South", in Charles W. Eagles, The Mind of the South: Fifty Years Later (University Press of Mississippi, 1992)

W. J. Cash, The Mind of the South (Alfred A. Knopf, 1941)

Dan T Carter, From George Wallace to New Gingrich: Race in the Conservative Counterrevolution, 1963-1994 (Louisiana State University Press, 1996)

Thomas Frank, What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America (Metropolitan Books, 2004)

Don E. Carleton, Red scare! Right-wing hysteria, fifties fanaticism, and their legacy in Texas (Austin, Tex. : Texas Monthly Press, 1985)

Thomas B. Edsall, Building Red America: the New Conservative Coalition and the Drive for Permanent Power (Basic Books, 2006)

Michael W. Miles, The Odyssey of the American Right (Oxford University Press, 1980)

Richard M. Freeland, The Truman Doctrine and the origins of McCarthyism: foreign policy, domestic politics, and internal security, 1946-1948 (New York University Press, 1985)

James William Gibson, Warrior Dreams: Violence and Manhood in Post-Vietnam America (Hill and Wang, 1994)

Kim Phillips-Fein, Invisible Hands: the Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan (W. W. Norton, 2009)

Julia Adams and Mounira M. Charrad, Patrimonial Power in the Modern World (Sage, 2011)